#asylum

Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith. ↗

— Bill Shuster

#american people #asylum #blinders #cannot #does

He'll have to do without me, Jamie thought, not looking back. And then clearly, as if he'd been told, he knew Grenville /could/ do without him. There was somewhere else he had to go now, somewhere else he had to be. ↗

— S.E. Hinton

#dark #death #emotional #life #light

Wenn wir uns erinnern, wie rassisch, religiös und politisch Verfolgte, die vom sicheren Tod bedroht waren, oft vor geschlossenen Grenzen anderer Staaten standen, werden wir vor denen, die heute wirklich verfolgt sind und bei uns Schutz suchen, die Tür nicht verschließen." [Ansprache am 8. Mai 1985 in der Gedenkstunde im Plenarsaal des Deutschen Bundestages] ↗

— Richard von Weizsäcker

#bigotry #freedom #intolerance #persecution #politics

When there's a monster under your bed sometimes it really is best not to look. ↗

— Jocelynn Drake

#asylum-tales #humor #ignorance #philosophical #thoughts

They had engaged in what could not be called treatment or even discussion, but open combat, the two of them a microcosm of the great war raging in the far distance: one side that desired autonomy, and the other that took independence as a sign of madness. ↗

— Kathy Hepinstall

#inspirational #war #inspirational

It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes... ↗

— S.E. Hinton

#classic #dark #emotional #life #mental-hospital

He mouths something. Six words. Six words that seem too impossible to be true. Six words that bleed hope into my soul. Six words. “You’re not crazy. I love you. ↗

— Lauren Hammond

#insanity #love

Addy, living one day without you would never be for the best. I want you every minute of every day. Forever. I love you. ↗

— Lauren Hammond

#damien #insanity #lauren-hammond #love #love

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place. ↗

— Robert Welch

#country #insane #letting #patients #place

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#government #grants #hope #i #me